they burned a pile of wood and car tires to close off roads. this aircraft has the wingspan of a jumbo jet, but it runs on solar power. the plane is making its return home from its voyage to switzerland. it went from europe to africa. and now this is exiled buddhist monks celebrating the birthday of their spiritual birthday of their spiritual leader, the dalai lama. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm suzanne malveaux, and this hour in ""cnn newsroom"" we are focusing on the jobs report and what it means if you are employed or underemployed and also the new orleans mayor mitch land r landrieu who is going to tell us what he is doing to combat violence in his city. and also, we will be joined by a

panel to talk about aids. and we are talking about jobs, j j jobs, jobs, and the employers are not hiring enough to bring down the latest figures. you see that 80,000 new jobs were added last month but the labor unemployment rate remai remairemains 8.2%, and that is because of the jobs added in may. it is a different picture from the jobsarlier in the year. now president obama and mitt romney are talking about it. >> our mission is not to get back to where we were before the crisis, and we have to get back to what has been happening in the last decades, because jobs leaving our shores and we have to struggle to fight for. >> now is the time for america to choose whether they want more of the same and whether unemployment over 8% month after month after month is satisfactory or not.

it does not have to be this way. america can do better and this kick in the gut has got to end. >> i want to break down the good news and the bad news of the latest jobs report. we are joined by danny from georgia tech, and when you look at the numbers here, people say it is a bad picture, and did it surprise you and what does it say about the state of the economic recovery? >> well, it is not surprising. we were hoping that the numbers would be better, because we have been in a three-month downward trend and we want to see the bottom of the trend so that the economy will come back up again, but we did not see it in time around. in a sense it is bad, but another side, because there were enormous events happening over the last month and particularly in europe, and many people had expected that the unemployment rate would go up or get worse, and it didn't. so it could have been worse. >> it could have been worse, and

tell us ho it is worse for particular groups, because it is an uneven recovery here. >> it is very uneven. it is uneven across the sectors and part of the problem is that we get one sector of the economy engaged and the other sector is not, and vice versa, and uneven across the groups. with see the particular time when we look at for example whites, their unemployment remains the same. and latinos remains the same, but among african-americans, it increased significantly from 13.6% to 14.4%, so there is a lot of unevenness in this economy. >> which sekers to benefited here, because it seems that the kinds of jobs that people have are in service industries and temporary and not well paying jobs and not a lot of job security. >> you are exactly right, suzanne. they are in temporary help services with si t s wits which increase in jobs. and now looking at the reverse of that and where we would have

liked to have seen the jobs created is in construction and only 2,000 jobs there because construction almost one-third of the workers who were displaced by the recession came from the construction industry. but there's sort of a slow inkre increase in jobs, and in addition to temporary health services, we also had increases in jobs in the sort of the regular kind of the industries, and so, you know, it is not sort of the kind of picture that we would like to see, and durable goods manufacturing increased $14,000 and that is all right, but we want to see a lot more than that. >> and you and i talk about the people who have given up, or who are not even in the figures, some 88 million people who are not even looking anymore. what does that say about how we are doing now? >> well, we talk about this all of the time, and most people don't understand that, we would prefer to see the unemployment rate increasing and people

coming into the labor market than staying the same or decreasing and people exiting. last month some 670,000 people who came into the labor market and we were expecting to see the trend continuing even if it meant that ton employment rate was decrease, but this month we only had 120,000 coming into the labor market. so that means if people are not coming into the labor market, they are more discouraged about their prospects of finding a job. >> what is that going to do for people who are getting more discouraged, and not looking for work. what is that saying about the state of the economy over all? >> well, it means a tremendous loss of the human capital is what it boils down, and the friend you know or i do know doesn't have a job. that means lost output for the economy, and so that there is trauma in term of that person's livelihood, but there is also lost output in terms of the person's output, and so if you

look at where we are compared to 2007 and the relative downturn to where we could have been, the economic potential, there is an enormous gap between the two. >> thank you, danny boston. i think that we have a long way to go. >> we do. >> we will talk to alan krueger of the obama administration, and what kind of ideas and strategy they have moving forward to get more people back to work. >> very good. i had the opportunity to meet with him recently there, and they are struggling to try to get a handle on it. it is a tough problem. there's some solutions, but it is long run and no quick solutions. >> all right. thank you, danny. appreciate it. >> thank you. today in pairs, diplomats from about a hundred countries are frustrated right now that they cannot get more deeply involved with syria who is on the brink of a civil war. these are called the friends of syria, and representing the united states of course is secretary of state hillary clinton, and she wants a united international effort to remove

bashar al assad from power, but there is something very big standing in the way of that. as we know, eelise labott is there. what do we know? >> well, she is pointing the finger directly at russia and china and urging the international community to get them to get off of the sidelines and support the aspirations of the syrian people and stop blocking the efforts of the u.n. security council to get tough on them. take a listen to what she had to say to reporters just after the conference. >> that's why the entire world is now looking to those few nations that still have influence in damascus. they need to step up and use all their leverage to make sure that assad sees the writing on the wall. sitting on the sidelines or even worsen abling the regime's

brutality would be a grievous m mistake. >> reporter: she was really tough, suzanne, but the question is that there have been three conferences already, the friends of syria conferences, and the question, is what is it achieving? we heard from the syria opposition who said we have so many friends of syria. and if we have so many friends, why are people dying? they are looking for a more robust action by the international community and give us aid and stop this massacre. >> will the secretary in meeting with the russian counter part recently, does she have some leverage or carrots and sticks to offer the russians or the chinese to change their position here? >> reporter: well, i mean, i think that the russia and china are playing a double game. last week in geneva they signed on to the quote, unquote transition plan for post assad, but now this plan has no basis of reality of what is going on,

on the ground, and how do you get the violence to stop, and assad stepping down so that you can implement the plan? i don't really necessarily think that the u.s. is ready to put any consequences on russia and china, because they need them for so many other things, and they need them for iran and economic issues and i'm not necessarily sure even though she talks a tough game about russia, what is the u.s. really prepared to do to get them to move? i don't think that there are any fundamental consequences for the relationship, and that is part of the problem. >> that is the bottom line. and that is the question. elise labott, thank you as always. this is what we are working on this hour. the father of a california mentally ill man is suing the state because he wants change so he is suing the city of fullerton and the police force. and we have the president's campaign speech from pittsburgh later in the hour and hear how he responds to mitt romney's jabs about the economy. a huge party is starting today in new orleans.

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it is consistent with what i have heard as i have gone across the country and met with families in their homes, in cafes an restaurants. and in break rooms. american families are struggling. there is a lot of misery in america today, and these numbers understate what people are feeling, and the amount of pain which is occurring in middle-class america. >> allan krug ser an krueger is president's council of economic advisers and he is joining us from washington. you hear say it issiit is -- yo mitt romney say it is a kick in the gut. do you agree? >> no. if you take a step back and where the economy was and how it has improved since the president has come into office, you will see we are on a better path. now, we clearly have a long way to go, and the problems that are affecting the economy, affecting the middle-class families have been a long time in the making, but we are making progress and

the economy is gradually healing and the president has proposed measures to strengthen job growth, strengthen the economy, ap i think that what is clear is that we don't want to go backwards to the kinds of policies that started the economic crisis in the first place. >> when you look at the numbers, it is discouraging at how slowly this growth is occurring here? you talk about how it is bett t than it used to be, but it has been slowing down since the beginning of the year. >> we have had over 900,000 jobs created so far this year, and we have 28 months in a row of private sector job growth, and 4.4 million jobs over that period, and the recoveries don't move in straight lines. we will have some months that are stronger than others, but it is very important that we continue to expand. the president has proposed steps to put more construction workers back to work rebuilding the nation's infrastructure and to provide funds for the state and the local government to keep the

teachers in the classroom and first responders on the job. the president has proposed concrete steps that wouldcreak e created additional jobs in the long run. >> and alan, a lot of disagreement over these numbers and john boehner says that today, the report shows that the private sector is not doing fine and the policies of the president have failed and they have led to a spending bing that have led to 21 months of over 8% unemployment, and driving up health care costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire. so anything to do with three more jobs reports out there to actually improve this economic picture for the president? >> well, first of all, those allegations are not consistent with the facts.

since the health care reform act passed, we have had private sector job growth every month. you look at the job growth over the last 28 months and compare it to the comparable period of the previous recovery and it is twice as strong in this period. so it is not as strong as we would like it to be and that is why the president is pressing congress to pass remaining components of the america's jobs act to invest more construction workers and teachers and first responders on the job. and i would add that congress can act on the president's proposal of small business tax cuts to continue 100% business expensing, and also to provide a tax cut for small businesses that increase employment, and this is a typef of policy that the congressional budget office has concluded has high bang for the buck in terms of creating additional jobs. >> we have to leave it there. alan krueger from the administration and thank you very much. obviously people will look at the numbers and make decisions

based on how they are doing and where they believe and what strategy they believe is best moving forward in the economy. thank you very much, and appreciate your time. the father of a homeless man beaten to death by police is filing a wrongful death lawsuit on the anniversary of the son's death. the police involved say they are not guilty.

brutal police beating caught on tape a year ago and you may remember the disturbance beating showing a homeless mentally ill man kicked and punched by police officers happening in fullerton, california, and the man died five days after that beating. well, the vigil was held last night on the anniversary of the

beating, and thomas' mother seen there in the bottom right side of the screen, she reached a $1 million settlement with the city and now thomas' father wants his own settlement. casey wian is following the story from l.a. and we know that the father filed a suit against the city and the police chief and the six officers alleged in the beating. what is he asking for? >> he is asking, suzanne, for mainly changes in the way that the fullerton police department is governed by the city of fullerton is one of the things that he is seeking. and there are a lot of folks being sued here including two former police chiefs and the six officers involved in the beating and the city of fullerton, and the lawsuit also leaves room for many others to be added to this lawsuit. now, according to ron thomas, kelly thomas' father, the attorney for ron thomas, he said that the officers should have known that kelly thomas was mentally ill and was not a threat.

>> the important thing to remember is that kelly had every right that all of us have. the fact that he was homeless, the fact that hi was mentally ill did not reduce his rights. he has the same right all of us had and have. these police officers owed him an obligation to protect him and to serve him, not the beat him to death. >> now, as you mentioned suzanne, already kelly thomas' mother has settled with the city of fullerton for $1 million, but ron thomas, kelly thomas' father say th says that the lawsuit is not about money. >> i primarily want change. i have not talked about money and i'm still not talking about money. that is not what i am doing. >> specifically, the changes that ron thomas is looking for is as we mentioned, the changes

in the structure of the city and he may decide to run for the city council and eventually try to become mayor of the city, himself. the lawsuit alleges that there is a culture or has been a culture of corruption and cover-up by the city for the actions of fullerton police officers who over the years they say have violated the civil rights of many people they have encountered. >> so, casey, how is the city or the police department responding to the charges? >> right now, they are not offering any comment. they say they have not had a chance to study this lawsuit. they are not commenting at all, suzanne. >> all right. casey, thank you. appreciate the update. well, you have seen him on "law and order" and seen him on "l.a. law" and "city of angels" but now blair underwood has a new role on broadway and he is taking the fight for aids. you can also watch cnn live on

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george zimmerman could get out of jail today, but his family has to come up with the $1 million collateral set by the judge. george simmerman has to pay that amount or $100,000 to get out. he has to remain under electronic surveillance, and report every two days and no bank account or passport or go to the airport. the judge feared that he might flee the country to avoid prosecution for killing the unarmed teen trayvon martin. the original bail of $150,000 was revoked last month after he failed to disclose more than $150,000 in public donations to his defense fund. a major development today in the florida a&m band hazing

death of robert champion. campus police wanted the band s suspended three days before champion died. documents released by the university show that police knew about the hazing of band members on campus. drum major robert champion collapsed and died after a hazing incident in november. actor blair underwood has been in show business for 5 years starring in television, and film and now on broadway. everyone knows about his passion for the craft and you may not know about his other passion which is activism. he has been involved in e aids education and prevention for years. la later this month, h he is going to help lead a "keep the promise march" in washington in the fight against hiv and aids. blair underwood is joining us this morning from new york. great to see you, and everybody knows you are a fantastic actor and super star in your own right, but you have been passionate about this issue for years and tell us why.

>> i have been, and first of all, thank you, suzanne and finally glad to make it to suzanne's newsroom here on cnn. thank you for having me. i think that my interest and passion for hiv and aids awareness started 25 years ago with an organization that i co-founded in hollywood called artist artists for h south africa and so it was on the folks in south africa initially and we have put so much time and money into to awareness of hiv/aids there, and you start to say, wait, what about our own backyard and the aids awareness and prevention here in our own country and that is when i got involved here in our country specifically with a group called aids health care foundation and we have had a partnership for four or five years and done a number of campaigns in los angeles especially and we opened up the first clinic in washington, d.c. about two years ago and it is the same organization that magic johnson has been involved in and he has six or seven clinics all over the world and my first. when they approached me about

doing it, the realization that the statistics were mind boggling and the fact that african-american women especially aged 24-35, somewhere in there and the leading cause of death in this age was hiv/aids is unbelievable. we have made some strides, but i felt it was necessary to do whatever my small part could be to broaden the conversation and broaden the narrative about who this, this disease affects and who it reaches. >> and it is really staggering when you think about the number still. i know that this march that you have done a public service announcement before it takes place on july 22nd, and also the last day of the broadway production "a streetcar named desire" and you star in the first multiracial production on broadway. i had a chance to attend the opening there, and tell us what it is like to be the first african-american man to play the role of stanley in the tennessee williams' classic? >> well, it is amazing and of course, such an iconic role made

famous by mar low brando and the 1951 movie production, but it has been an extraordinary experience because it is my broadway debut and i think that my president is speaking at my alma mater carnegie mellon in pittsburgh, and today. >> yes. >> and it has always been my first love, film and television and hollywood came beckoning and i have been able to build a career and life there, but i have always had a love for the stage, so to get a chance to come to the broadway stage for the first time and in this production with the tennessee williams' words in "streetcar named desire" and minus the kowalski last name for stanley. but as you said, it is a great success. we are moving to london after this. and you were there opening night, and we get to sign off here two weeks out. >> it was a powerful performance from all of you and it has

gotten wonderful reviews and a an exception with the "new yorker's" theater critic john laura who called for no more all-black productions of the tennessee williams' plays unless he said all white of august w l william who is african-american and when you heard that and some of the cast of the production, what did you make of that? >> my first reaction is to laugh and dismiss it, because i have said it before, i really think that those sentiments are -- it is a dying breed number one. i think that artists should be able to do the work of any artist regardless of the cultural alignment and the race or wherever you come from. and you know, really, what people have to understand this is the first multicultural cast of "streetcar named desire" on broadway, but tennessee williams himself sanctioned all cultural casts since 1956. so it is like a faux

controversy, because tennessee williams knew what he was doing, and he knew new orleans especially, and this is set in new orleans and there is more intermingling of the races as you know suzanne malveaux. >> yes, that is where my family is from, yes. >> and so it makes sense. and when people say i don't want to see this, but you have to understand that the man who wrote it is okay with it number one and the estate to this day sanctioned us the right the do it. as i said my first and last reaction is to laugh and just dismiss it. >> blair, you have been in the business for quite some time and close to three decades now, and we were used the seeing you as a nice guy character in "l.a. law" but now in several of the roles, you have been aggressive and even playing abusive characters and hard for you to be a tough guy? >> well, suzanne, i should say it is hard and difficult to do, but it is not that hard. [ laughter ] you know, i really feel, you know, allel of us as human beings are capable of the most

righteous acts and the most egregious acts and the job as a actor is to bring all of to elements to the fore and that is what is great about being an actor that you get to bring all of the emotions and the characters and warts and all, bring it to light, and hope that the audience digests it. i feel -- wow, you are right, it is three decades and 27 years in the business and play good guys an bad guys and everybody in between and continue to hope i get those opportunities. >> blair, good to see you as always, and we will look for you in london as well. thank you, blair. >> all right. thank you u, suzanne. sure. tens of thousands of people are descending on new orleans today for a musical extravaganza call called the essence festival. we will take you to new orleans and including talking to the mayor about how he is helping the city and the new challenges up ahead.

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new orleans is putting out the welcome mat this weekend for the 18th annual "essence" music festival. thousands are flocking to where music is the king, but crime also makes headlines day in and day out, and new orleans has the highest per capita murder rate in the kun tcountry. we are joined by the mayor of new orleans who is planning to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. mayor, good to see you. we were there together last year at the essence festival and we talked about this last year as well the situation of crime and how bad things have gotten. give us a sense of how things have improved if they have improved and what you are doing about it.

>> well, really, in so many ways it is a tale of two cities and you have been down here for us, and it is a fantastic event for the city of new orleans the "essence" festival. we are growing and the property values are up, but in the southern part of the city, things are not so good. in city of chicago they had 53 shootings and philadelphia with the same, but in new orleans, we continue to have the relentless and the senseless violence on the streets that we have to deal with. it is a difficult thing to talk about nationally, because people sometimes don't know how to talk about it in an appropriate way, but every year in the city of new orleans since 1979 we have had an average of 241 murders and this is taking place all over the country, and so we want to get a handle on it. we are 10% down in the city of new orleans this year, but the truth is that one murder is too many. it is catastrophic problem for the city and the nation. we really have to talk about it

and get after it. >> and you know, mayor, you gave an impassioned speech on what is taking place in your city before the national association of black journalists last month, and my executive producer tweeted something you said, we can never rest until we save the next generation of black men. this is something that has resonated with at will of folks here. the violence happening in other cities as you mentioned chicago as well and three other people were killed just last night. do you see any similarities between what is taking place in chicago, and what is taking place in your city and the urban areas that have such high poverty rates? >> well, they are actually identical. when you look at the statistics across the country, some of us have more of it than others, but generally, if you look at it from the cities, it is not as visible as if you look at it from the neighborhoods. in many neighborhoods across the country where you have young african-american men between 15 and 25 years old, generally unemployed and some kind of brush with the criminal justice

system early. what has happened is that we have a culture where the young men have learned how to resolve their differences with the tip of a gun and turned into a culture of violence and what i mean by that is behavioral p patterns that have goed over the last 30 or 40 years, and unfortunately the nation has turned a blind eye to that but last year 7,000 young african-american men were taken on the streets in america and that is a catastrophic number. in some instances, it is statistically more likely to be killed on certain streets in our neighborhoods than if you are fighting in afghanistan. and i think that the mayor of philadelphia and rahm emanuel and i are saying this sun acceptable and we have to turn the nation's attention to this. >> mayer y omayor, i know it ist to hear, because you are part of the festival and a lot of noise in the background, but is there something specific that you could do or we could do to change that, turn that situation around? >> well, first of all, it is exactly not one thing.

it is a lot of things from the front of the house side to the back of the house side of it. and obviously strong police departments are important and obviously good schools and recreation programs are important, but essentially we have to teach kids the value of life and that they are loved and important to us, and the senseless killing is not good for them certainly, and the rest of the country. it is not simple to say stop the killing, but the first thing is to stop the shooting. a lot of places in the country where there are high poverty rates and low murder rates and high economy and high murder rates. we have succeeded in some areas like in boston, and there is an answer, but we have the call everybody to purpose on the issue, and we are certainly going to do it in new orleans because the young black men are valuable to us not only because they are intrinsically important, but because they are important to nation as well.

>> finally, mayor, would you tell us about the "essence" festival in your city, and it brings money and jobs and my family from new orleans and dleer cli a lot of excitement where you are. >> no question. sorry that you can't be with us, but it is a great event. it is the largest gathering of african-american entertainers and business owners and citizens in the country. we love it. they have been here 18 years and the economic impact is huge during a time in the summer months when most people would not like to come to new orleans, and we love them and thankful for it. it is a party with a purpose. a lot of great entertainment at the super dome, but at the convention center where i am sitting we have four seminars all day long the talk about the toughest issues facing america and talk about the solutions. we love them and glad they are here and they are a part of us and we love them. >> and thank you, mayor. 18 years and counting as the mayor mentioned people keep coming back and we will talk to the editor-in-chief of essence magazine. we are standing by waiting

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president obama is about to deliver a speech at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh and it is the latest stop in the so-called betting on america bus tour. dan lothian joins us. good to see you, dan. >> this is the president's final

stop on the two-day bus tour. he was supposed to be started a few moments ago, but he is running behind because he stopped by in beaver, pennsylvania, at a bakery where he ordered apple pie and a dozen chocolate chip cookies, but he is focusing on the e kconomy in the final stop here and broadly talking about the economic policies that he said have brought the economy back from the brink, and he will talk about yes, there is a long way to go, but progress is still being made. this is coming in the wake of the remarks that the president made earlier today in ohio when he addressed the dismal economic numbers that the president quoted saying it is still tough out there. and saying in his words that it is at least a step in the right direction. of course, the republicans are hitting on that saying when you look at the unemployment at 8.2%, and the president is

playing up private sector growth jobs, that is anything but a step in the right direction. in addition, the sort of broad strokes that the president will be delivering here about the economy and drilling down to specifically what the ad talkin about how his administration has supported intrastructure inprovements at the pittsburgh airport, roads, bridges across the city. even delivering a personal touch as he tries to hang on. >> dan, is there any concern from the campaign about these numbers today that this could be really difficult to overcome in the next three or four months? >> if they are concerned, they're not saying it publicly. they keep taking us back to what

the president has been saying for more than three years. once the president came into office he realized the situation was much worst and it's going to take time. you heard that from other administration officials that there's no quick fixes to the problem. it's something that was created over a period of ten years. it's not going to be reversed overnight. would they like to have better numbers? yes. are they expressing that they are upset publicly? they are not. >> a lot has changed when covered the 2008 campaign. the bus has changed. not your typical bus. this is kind of tricked out. can you tell us what nay are calling ground force one. >> this thing really puts the beast to shame. this large, black bus. the last time around when the president took it out for official bus, it didn't have the presidential seal on it. the door has the large presidential seal. it has the flashing police

lights on the front as well. escorted by the standard suvs. this allows the president, you know he's been been doing the bigger events, but the bus allows him to get out to some of the small towns to try to get to blue collar voters. >> thank you. we're standing by president obama to come out and address supporters at carnegie mellon university. we'll bring it to you live. [ male announcer ] it isn't just your mammogram.

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music, food, a list celebrities, they are all on verging on new orleans this weekend. it's the 18th annual essence festival. constance white is editor and chief. she is joining us. good to see you. we just spoke with the mayor about the festival. why new orleans? why every year in new orleans, first of all? >> p another year in new orleans because new orleans and essence are partners. this is really home for us. it's a sea of black culture. so much started here. it has a rich history with the black community. it's perfect partnership. >> it's a lot of fun. obviously, a lot of great musical talents. the mayor also said there's very serious workshops and things that go on. last year had an opportunity to

have a discussion with the president's top advisors who we asked was the president doing enough for the black community. the cover story was with president obama. what are you hearing? what are the folks saying about what kind of job he's doing? >> what our readers are saying is that there's some dispoi disappointment, but they support the president. they are concerned about jobs. the economy is a big issue. health care is a big issue, education, and women are concerned about where the economy is going. they believe the president has done a fair to decent job against great odds. are they hurting? are they challenged? yes, absolutely. >> do you think that in light of the fact they are hurting and challenged, are they motivated

to go to the poll? will they engage in the campaigns? will they be as active as they were four years ago? >> i can't say the extent to which they will be active, but they certainly will be involved. we're hearing from our readers that they want information on the election and campaign. they want to know what the president plans to do for them and they're trying to assess what he has done. they are very interested. >> constance what would be the take away from the festival. obviously, it's a great time. there are people who are having very real conversations about what is important to them. >> the big take away from the 18th essence music festival this year will be about the power of black women's voices. the power of the community. black women are really so

resilient. black women were a key factor in the win for president obama four years ago. black women continue to be optimistic in the face of really difficult economic circumstances, and they continue to draw a lot from their faith and from their families. the big take away for us here at the festival is the power of the black woman's voice. >> all right. constance white, thank you so much. good to see you. have a fun. appreciate your time. >> thank you. rescue crews searching the back country of tennessee's great smoky mountains national park. they are looking for people hurt from severe storms that have hammered the state just last night. two people were killed by falling trees. eight others were injured. how powerful are we talking about these storm sns. >> we're talking about 70 miles per hour winds. this is the radar from last

night. ti timestamp from 3:00 yesterday to about 6:30. you can see right there in eastern tennessee. the strong intense line of storms moving through and very scary. some of the rain there did help cool things off. we had this incredible record heat. st. louis 105 yesterday. today the nineth 100-degree day. you can see where the heat is. it's a where it will stay. chicago to washington, tomorrow, 105 in washington, d.c. it just changed. computer model is picking up a degree. this is the highest temperature washington has every seen. we've broken so many records in the last two weeks. here is this relief. there's this cold front on the backside of it. much cooler is relative. 100 today. 20 degrees cooler by the time we heads toward sunday. washington in the heat of it,

101. by monday things will cool down. >> okay. it's going to be another hot weekend in atlanta. >> a hot summer because there's more heat to the west poised to move in. >> thank you. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> thank you very much. i'm ashley banfield in for brooke baldwin. 82,000 new jobs last month. 80,000. it's the big story this friday. rate of unemployment is stuck at 8.2%. 80,000 jobs is slightly better than may but it's still not good enough. it's three straight months in a row in which the number of jobs created was less than 100,000. you can see january and february looking not too bad, but then the slowdown started in march. it hit hard in april and has not

relented. you have 71,000 service positions and 13,000 manufacturing jobs. that's 84,000. i don't know you're saying your numbers don't add up. it's a bit of a joke as to our program yesterday if you were watching. they do. the numbers really do add up because you got to subtract the 4,000 jobs that were lost in the public sector. the government jobs that are gone. this comes four month to the day before the general election. just as the president is reaching out to working class voters in ohio and pennsylvania. mitt romney's on vacation but no way was he going to miss this chance to summon the cameras and talk about this issue. romney is in new hampshire. >> seeing the jobs report this morning and it's another kick in the gut to middle class families. >> kick in the gut says governor romney. i want to start with our white house correspondent who has been

on the road. he went through ohio. he's in pennsylvania. pittsburgh to be specific. he's among that crowd where the president is because president obama plans to make an address as well. we've been waiting on this. dan, give me a bit of a rundown as to what we're going to hear the president say when the news really can't be spun to be very good. >> reporter: we'll continue to hear the president talk about what he and his administration have been doing over the last three and a half years to try to right the economy. there will be an admission from the president that there's a lot more that needs to be done and that turning the economy around will not happen overnight. you've heard the president and others in the campaign and the administration talking about how this is a problem that's been developing over a decade. it will not be reversed overnight. the president will talk about what he hopes to accomplish if

he is elected another four years. we don't expect the president will talk about the jobs numbers at this event here. earlier today a poll in ohio, the president did touch on a subject briefly. he said it's still tough out there. he tried to highlight that the private sector jobs that you were just talking about that there's growth there and it shows there's a step in the right direction but the president admitting it's not enough. >> our mission is not just to get back to where we were before the crisis. we've got to deal with what's been happening over the last decade, last 15 years. manufacturing leaving our shores. income flat lining. all those things are what we got to struggle and fight for. that's the reason i'm running for a second term of president of the united states. i want to move this country forward. [ applause ]

>> four more years. four more years. four more years. four more years. >> dan, do we still have you on the phone? i know we're watching as the tech operators get the mike ready for the president to take to the podium. if you can hear me, give me the thumbs up. i've got one more question for you. >> reporter: i can hear you. yes, i can. >> as the president is on the stump on this bus tour, one of the things that's been said not only by him and his campaign has been look, it's fine for the republicans to criticize this chronic, chronic economy is now the word that we're hearing, but what kind of plan does mitt romney and the republicans, what do they have in terms of fixing the job problem?

mitt romney has jumped to that saying he's got a 59 step plan. he's answering to that just as quickly as it comes out the president's mouth. how is he going to get a leapfrog on this? >> reporter: you're right. it's not just about, when the president goes after mitt romney and whatever it is he's offering to right the economy, the president lumped along with republicans in general and saying republicans have had their chance time and again to try to come up with solutions and they're solutions have failed. that's the tag line that the president has been using. they go after him but what do they have to offer. we do expect the president to talk about that more at this, his final stop of this two-day tour. in addition to that, we'll hear the president beyond the broader strokes of what he is pitching that his administration has done to try and right the economy.

the president talks specifically about how his administration has afforded a job here in the pittsburgh area and talking about infrastructure and pittsburgh airports and roads and bridges across the city. the president trying to make that personal connection because this is the region he hopes to hang onto to win in 2012 like he did in 2008. >> stand by live. we'll keep a live eye on the podium for the president. we're also watching governor romney and he will hear from his people in just a moment. make sure you hang on for a second. more numbers because that's where it seems to be at with this economic tour. we're looking at 12.7 million americans who don't have jobs right now. of those, 5.4 million have been out of work for six months. those are the long-term unemployed and that's not good news again. we're getting indications from around the globe from europe and

china and india that the world's major economies are slowing down. that makes the situation worse for us as well. alison kosik is live to give us a snapshot of where we stand. give me a bit of a feel for where wha this economic numbers mean. could we get momentum? could things change? >> anything is possible. where we stand right now it's hard to sugar coat what's happening. the economy is just not in a great place. mys around the world are expected to perform worse than everybody thought. we get today's jobs report from june and the interesting thing with this report is that the bar for this reading was already very low.

economists expected a gain of 95,000. you luke at the jobs picture from april of this year through june. it's the weakest job quarter in two years. we had three months in a row of job additions below 100,000. i think it's safe to say this is a trend. it's not good enough to bring down the unemployment rate. you need to see jobs month after month one economist said it's stuck in quick sand. >> what about the markets? one analyst can say that but the markets speak volumes. >> there's a sell off. look at how stocks responded. the dow sold off in the triple digits after those disappointing reports in march, april and may.

now the question as far as wall street sees it is, is this 80,000 job addition bad enough for the fed to do something. is it enough to encourage the fed to pump some stimulus into the system. someone said it's nod bad enough. they know the fed will not act any time soon. >> all right. alison kosik live. thanks so much. i want to continue on this narrative as well because governor mitt romney is on vacation, but with this lousy jobs report, it's reason enough to get right back into the game. have yourself a press conference even if it is brief. we did see the governor react to this and react fast. he is laying out a 59-point

plan. i'm curious if he's echoing that louder than the job numbers. >> reporter: 90 minutes is how fast he got out in front of the numbers. the reason i think that is such a good question is because certainly what mitt romney has been doing and continued to do today was really, really hit the president on the fact that these job numbers are still bad because that is his best, best point. anybody agrees, against the president for not having another term in office. mitt romney has gotten criticism not just from democrats but there's been some friendly fire from the editorial pages in this country, the wall street journal and the weekly standard saying that mitt romney needs to not hit the president but also, pardon the truck, come up with his own plan. listen to what mitt romney said earlier today about that. >> i have a plan.

my plan calls for action that will get america working again and create good jobs both near term and long term. it includes finally taking advantage of our energy resource, building the keystone pipeline. making sure we create energy jobs and convince manufacturers that energy will be available and low cost in america. >> reporter: now, part of the criticism is not so much that he is not talking about his 59-point plan. it's that he has a 59-point plan. certainly, people want to know that your can understand or potential president has ideas but part of the issue messaging wise and we heard this from the former senator from new hampshire who was a close ally that they are not doing it in a direct enough way so that people understand that he has plan and what that is. >> that is certainly friendly fire. all right. the narrative continues because

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living. nearly 400 employees in scranton opened up their check to see their pay rate is $7.25 per hour. we're talking police officers, firefighters. they cut their pay even though a judge told them, told the city that they could not do it. for the city's part, the city did it because we are broke. period. they got $5,000 left in the bank after issuing the checks for the minimum wage. that's their reason. despite the injunction saying you can't send out checks at minimum wage, they did it any way. expect another date in court. the unions are livid. this story definitely continues. news just in to cnn. breaking development now in the hazing case that involved that ban at florida a&m university. there is word that police warned

that school just days before the death of one of the band members. let's go live to george who has been tracking the story since the beginning. bring me up to speed on this story, and what this new development means? >> we are getting notes from the dean of students of he got a report three days before robert champion was killed. he got a phone call from someone who reported an alleged case of hazing off campus. that day he called a meeting with several top officials including the school police chief. they both agreed, they both suggested that the band be suspended because of the hazing incidents. the result of that meeting, that action was not taken. they decided to talk to the band directly and talk to them about hazing and the consequences that could result from it. the band was not suspended. three days later, robert champion was killed.

>> are there legal implications? >> you can rest assure that pam and robert champion's attorney are paying very close attention to all of these developments. i spoke with pam champion earlier. they are not yet releasing a comment on the newly released notes from the dean of students. you can tell this is something they are definitely looking into. pam champion said this is not new information to her. she had heard about this possible meeting, but now that it's confirmed and we have proof that this meeting did happen, it's something they are looking into it. >> it's fascinating development. thanks very much. a stunning blow to syrian president. one of his top generals, someone he really counted on, has said good-bye. could this be the beginning of the end for the embattled

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shelling of neighborhoods in syria today. opposition groups saying 16,000 people, that's now the tally of those who died since the uprising began in that country. an uprising against the government the killings at the hand of the government forces. now a huge blow for that government. one of president assad's top generals have left him.

left for paris. you can see him next to president assad in this picture. he was considered very close. member of the inner circle. the reason for leaving is being reported that he is disgusted over the killings of many. we have been told that three and four people in syria are sunni muslim. let's talk about this. is this truly an altruistic defection or is this a guy who is seeing the house of cards about to fall and wants to save his own neck? >> reporter: i talked to a syrian journalist who interviewed him on the phone last night after he got to turkey. at that moment in that conversation he insisted he was disgusted with the killing of

civilians and with the dictatorship in syria. he did not say he was going to join the syrian opposition even though it's rebel fighters from his hometown who we're told helped him escape. it's interesting that i'm already hearing from syrian opposition activists from some of them that they want this guy broughtp on charges of crimes against humanity and the other atrocities that we have seen committed against syrian people by syrian security forces over the course of the last 16 very bloody, very deadly months. >> the way it works in the united states when there's a crime committed, the first guy to go to the prosecutor's and tell all usually gets the best deal and saves his neck. that's why i asked that question. is it possible that he could be one of first to leave but many more are about to follow because things don't look good for assad

right now? >> reporter: they don't. significant chunks of his own country are out of the government's control. the economy has taken a beaten. now the son of one of aristocratic families have now fled. you do make a good point. he's likely to be courted by western intelligence agencies right now who are very keen to learn about the workings of the syrian regime, perhaps where the money is hidden. perhaps where some of the chemical weapon arsenals are hidden which are very much a concern right now. this is a wealthy man. his family is wealthy. his father was defense minister for more than 30 years. his brother was a very successful businessman. he's likely to have made this move to have set his way up to

probably land somewhere cushy. anybody that comes after him, we don't know. in libya we saw the big fish dropping very quickly within the first couple of months. it's been 16 months and this is the first real face of the regime to have left, which is remarkable. it shows how disciplined and tight this regime really was. >> loyalty can be about as thick as water when you get to this stage of the game and the noose begins to tighten. thanks very much. appreciate that. hillary clinton is in paris. she's attending a conference called the friends of syria meeting. they want to put pressure on syrian president and his followers. let's take you live now where our president has been ready to

speak. he is at carnegie melon university pittsburgh, pa. >> if you're willing to work hard, if you're willing to take responsibility for your life, you can make it if you try here in the united states of america. that basic idea, that basic bargain that says here we all deserve a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same set of rules. that basic bargain that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility in your own life then you can find a job that pays a living wage. you can save up and buy a home.

you won't go bankrupt if you get sick. maybe you can take a vacation with your family once in a while. nothing fancy. you can go out, go visit some of our national parks or i remember my favorite vacation when i was a kid, traveling with my mom and my grandma and my sister and we traveled the country on greyhound buses and railroads and once in a while we'd rent a car, not that often and stay at howard johnsons. didn't matter how big the pool was. if there was a pool i'd jump in. i was 11 years old and i was excited to go to the vending machine to get the ice bucket and the ice. then the chance to retire with dignity and respect.

that dream of a strong middle class. that's what america's been about. >> those are the kind of words you use when you're on the state your full name astump and hittig up the rust belt especially day when your jobs numbers are lousy. let's move on. his video taped beating by the police and then his subsequent death shook a california beating to its core. the father of a homeless man who became a victim to beating, that father is suing the city of fullerton and strangely enough it's not money he's after. r veh. sir, can you hear me? two, three. just hold the bag. we need a portable x-ray, please! [ nurse ] i'm a nurse. i believe in the power of science and medicine. but i'm also human. and i believe in stacking the deck.

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ncht father of a california homeless man who died after being beaten by police officers has decided the sue the city and the police chief and the officers allegedly involved. he's blaming them for what happened to his son kelly thomas. it was caught on camera last july and it is disturbing. it starts with the 37-yeaold being defiant to fulerton police officers. >> yeah what about em. >> start punching. >> it ends more than seven minutes later with thomas calling for his daddy. i do want to give you warning. it's really tough to watch this tape. >> daddy. dad. >> thomas died five days after that beating. he died in the hospital. now a year after he died, his

father and a lawsuit seeking more than $25,000 in damages. you heard right. $25,000 in damages. normally you hear requests in the millions for something like this. he's asking for 25,000. i have a lot of questions about this. let me start with the number because i think it's critical in this story. why is it relatively so low? >> well, what that is sort of a pro-form of designation of the lawsuit. when ron thomas and his attorney filed this suit, under california law they have to designate whether it will be seeking damages in excess of $25,000, which is an unlimited civil suit in california or less tha than. clearly, if this case goes to trial and a jury hears it it's going to be damages far in excess of $25,000. that's the expectation.

here is what the gist of the lawsuit is. they are saying that the police department, the city of fulerton, these six police officers should have known that kelly thomas was mentally ill and that he posed no threat to the officers. >> the important thing to remember is that kelly had every right that all of us have. the fact that he was homeless, the fact that he was mentally ill did not reduce his rights. he has the same right all of us had and have. these police officers owed him an obligation to protect him and to serve him, not to beat him to death. >> earlier, kelly thomas' mother settled with the city for $1 million. his father says money is not at issue in this case. he's trying to force change in the city of fulerton.

he wants the entire city structure to be revamped and he wants closer oversight of the city's police department by city officials. he says that this lawsuit says that city officials have allowed corruption and civil rights violations to go on in this police department for years. we'd have to point out that the police department and the city are both declining to comment on the civil suit as of right now. >> understandably so. two of them are facing criminal charges. it doesn't surprise me at all that they didn't comment. thank you for that. he calls this the most important job creation bill ever. ever. his opinion matters because los angeles mayor is the man who helped to make it happen. what does the new transportation bill do for you, and how in the world did democrats and republicans finally come

together on anything? i'm going to ask the man who is there with the coordinated tie in just a moment.

if you're one of those people that think republicans and democrats can't agree on anything, have i got a story for you. the president is expected to sign a bipartisan bill. i know you haven't heard that term in a long time.

it's really important. it could create or save more than two million jobs. this is jobs day, so thst big. it will call for the extension of interest rates on certain college loans. what you may not have heard is the transportation side of it. it includes a part that will fund highways and transit projects for the next two years. it's the first long term transportation bill since way, way back in 2005. one of the lawmakers credited with the idea, not even from capitol hill, from los angeles, the mayor there. he's going to be beside the president during that signing if all goes well today. the mayor is credited with spearheading this idea. it's an idea that the house and senate republicans and democrats agreed upon. magic. he joins me live from washington, d.c. it's nice to meet you again. congratulations. how on earth did this happen? >> well, you said it.

job number one at a time when we're struggling in our economy is to put people back to work. the congress hasn't been doing much in that area. yes, i spearheaded this part of the bill, you talked about two million jobs creating and preserving. there's another part. the part i proposed called america fast forward. at a time of high deficit and debt it incentivises across the nation, which is why 200 mayors have gotten behind it. this is an important day for people in the construction industry. it's an important day for people who want to repair our roads, highways, build our public transportation system and repair our bridges. i'm very excited to be here today. >> i couldn't imagine anything could possibly be controversial in a bill like this when you

have so much bipartisan agreement. then i found this. i found the taxpayers for common sense who weren't the least bit thrilled about this because they say this is $105 billion regardless of job savings or creation. it kind of like a bailout and doesn't do what we should be doing with that money. let reread part of this statement. by initiating another bailout congress fails to face the acute funding challenges the transportation program faces. why are they wrong? >> their from mars. they're not living in the real world. >> at least you didn't say my name 15 names to make that point. i thank you profusely for that. >> they got their heads stuck in the sand. nobody agrees. we've got to put people back to work. our bridges are crumbling, our highways, roads, streets.

we've got to repair our infrastructure system. every republican and democrat president since eisenhower has been supportive of extending this surface transportation bill. this congress extended it 11 times. they finally got on their job and did their job thanks to mayors and the u.s. chamber of commerce and a broad coalition of people very different from the group that you just mentioned who said job number one is to put people back to work right now. >> i'll give you this. i know your community, you put forth a half cent sales tax in order to secure funds. i got to switch gears for a moment. since you have this brand new title chairman of the convention, how is the dnc doing in terms of fund raise iing?

have you met your goals? >> we're chugging along like the little train that could. we're moving ahead. we expect to be funded by september when the convention is going on. we've got a very difficult task ahead because we're not raising money from corporations, just individuals and foundations. that makes it tougher. we're moving ahead and expect to meet our goal. >> you think you got enough to fund the convention? >> i believe we will. >> that's not a full on yes. is there a possibility it will not happen. >> i expect we will. >> still, you're saying there's a possibility? >> no. we're not there yet but we will be there by september. >> you need yourself a sheldon adelson. that's what you need. >> yes, we do. >> it's nice to see you again. thanks for being with us. i look forward to our next encounter. >> thank a lot. you are not going to believe be story we have come can go up for you.

a st. louis mother videotaping two toddlers, that's not unusual. it is unusual when they are fighting. it is unusual when they are in diapers and it is unusual when she's egging them onto fight better and harder. it's outrageous and there is some law attached to this one. we'll tackle it. do you see it ?

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ncht we don't know her face. we don't know her name, but there's a missouri woman gaining a lot of notarity for some of the worst parenting ever. in an online video over the wails of two toddlers she eggs on the little ones to pummel each other. >> y'all better hit back.

>> you heard it right. y'all better hit back. our affiliate alerted the missouri department of social services because of this video because a viewer who knows the mother told the tv station about the video. for privacy reasons the officials at social services could not give any comment about this to ktvi. the defense attorney we want to touch on with this is joey jackson. i don't know where to begin with this one. i'll begin with this child endangerment times two. >> there's a couple of problems. you're endangering the welfare of a child. there's a statute that deals with that issue and in the event that you endanger the child, it can rise to the level not only of a misdemeaner which is punishable by a year but a felon that goes far in excess. >> why isn't it a felony to

start with? >> it could be. that's not to be ruled out. her second problem forgetting about the criminal problem and that's the family unit. social services is going to investigate this and say are you really fit to be a parent. shouldn't we be encouraging kids to read and write instead of cursing and fighting. >> or stopping them from being hurt. >> that's true. you have an obligation to protect your children. when you're encouraging this type of behavior and the foundation. this is foundational. if these kids are doing this and this is what we're learning and molding them into when they are just out of diapers, what is she going to be doing years from now. >> understandably social services wouldn't comment, but there's no way that they are not looking for this woman. >> there's no question about it. this woman will be brought in. she'll be questioned. she'll get an attorney. she should. i think we'll see an arrest here. i think we will see a prosecution here.

i think more importantly than the whole jail issue is parenting. attached to these sentences are programs that can teach you how to do better, what to do, how to treat your children and not to engage in this behavior. >> what level does this kind of neglect abuse, assault, whatever you want to say, endangerment, what level does it have to rise to where social services says you don't even get the parenting classes to get that child back. you don't get that child back? >> short answer. it has to engage to a level that's a lot less than we see here. we shouldn't have it get to the instance where you have fisticuffs and have people egging it on. these agencies are in the business of ensuring that the family unit remains as a unit because they need a mother but they need a mother who will be

responsible and do the right thing and share values that are developmental with the child and not destructive. i think this is beyond the pail. it will be looked into and strictly and harshly dealt with. >> i did not set you up for this, but i'm going to test you. i have some breaking news and you're the perfect person on the set. george zimmerman who is the suspect in the death of trayvon martin. he has just posted that $1 million bond and been released from the sanford, florida facility. i would love it if you give me the play by play on what it takes to post a million dollar bond. >> if you have 10%, you can either do it in one or two ways. you can do it in property. you can post the bond as long as the bond's person is assured you have the collateral in the event you don't go back to court. you're looking at 10% of a

million dollars which is $100,000 or some property to ensure you would return. if you don't, your money gets taken away. the other quick issue is the safe issue. he's going to be taken to place, he can't leave the county. he's going to have to be at some place that he's available because he has to report back every two days. that in and of itself could present a media circumstance. his safety is going to be at issue. there's a dispute whether people care about his safety. people have a lot of strong opinions. >> in this country you are innocent until proven guilty. summary executions don't happen here. i've been to countries where that happens. >> we have a lot more rights here. >> p let me ask you this.

the conditions, i'm not going to test you on it because it was a long list. there were unusual conditions and they are specific to him. >> they are. the point is that they are the obvious conditions. there's the curfew and he has to be home by 6:00 p.m. he can't have any alcohol. he has an electronic monitoring bracelet that he pays for. >> he can't go to an airport. >> he can't go to an airport. can't touch upon airport property. that presents an issue. he cannot have or apply for a passport. the judge is very concerned about whether he poses a risk of flight. >> that was the criminal point i wanted you to point out because the judge did say in boosting that bond, flight risk. fear of flight. j joey jackson stick around. on monday, watch your ipad and your computer because a bunch of us could be in the dark while trying to surf the web.

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